Talented, controversial, bestial. The writer and poet Enrique Symns he died at the age of 77. His health had been failing since time immemorial. “It seems easy to die, but it costs me“He said in one of his last interviews.

as mentioned sebastian duartewriting partner of the Pig crew, “diabetes was his great demon, bothering him for years. And the excesses didn’t help, leaving a punished body exposed.”

Friend and critic of the Redondos

He became famous as editor of the legendary Cerdos & Peces magazine, but also for her love-hate with him Indium Solari, who was encouraged to criticize like no one ever in the church of rock. Before they were friends and Symns did stand-up type monologues in the first mythical shows of Patricio Rey and his Redonditos de Ricota.

And he continued: “Calamari​ and a handful of friends have helped him tremendously over the past few years. Generous people.”

Symns went so far as to call Indio Solari a “murderer” when he viciously accused the lead singer of Redonditos de Ricota for his attitude after the death of Walter Bulacciomurdered by the Police after a band show.

He wrote in his Pigs & Fishes, driven by raging hurricanes of his mind. “A cop killed him but that shitty guy was hired by the gang and whoever pays always has more responsibility than whoever is hired,” he said in writing.

The news bounced on the networks. Nacional Rock, the radio, published: “We are sorry to report the death of Enrique Symns, writer, journalist, founder of Cerdos & Peces magazine and stand-up comedian of Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota in the 1980s. Have a good trip, Enrico”.

a lighthouse below

Symns was a beacon of underground and countercultural journalism in Buenos Aires. Our Bukowski. A piece of history, the darkness of which served as an outlet for fascinating spews of high literature.

How could it be otherwise, he was its author the lord of poisons, where the author honored his forked tongue by recounting his journey through the underworld; describing his revolutionary editorial projects. It has been said: “His ambition and lucidity put him on par with damned writers Burroughs or Hunter S. Thompson”.

“I was distracted that night because I was able to sit at the window table, with my gin, watching the most beautiful panorama in the universe: the arrival and departure of the trains”.

Everything that passed through his pen was interesting. Running to the limit was her favorite pastime of hers. Symns has also worked for Satiricón, El Porteño, Eroticón and the legendary Chilean weekly The clinicamong others.

“The formula of the spell that causes his writings is the opposite: it’s not so much what matters, but his poisonous way of handling language that makes them captivating,” said writer Marina Mariasch.

His life includes chapters of prison transit, drug trafficking, heterosexual sex scenes worthy of Rocco Siffredi, cruel tales, crackling stories and his tumultuous relationship with national rock.

” Thirst is what doesn’t exist and it’s what makes you feel that life is just an instant, that it comes and that after that it won’t be anymore. Life is a very miserable thing, very repugnant, it’s simply eating, shitting and fall asleep: nothing more”.